---
dataset:
  - name: UltrasTexts_EgyptianIndependent
tags:
  - egypt-independent
  - ultras
  - football-fandom
  - text-corpus
  - web-scraping
  - sports-media
license: mit
---

# Texts about Ultras from the Egyptian Independent, 2009-2020

A curated corpus of Egypt Independent articles on “Ultras” football fan groups, with publication dates, URLs, and full‑text content.

## Dataset Summary

- **Source**: Egypt Independent search results for the term “ultras+” (39 pages of results, 9 articles per page). 
- **Period Covered**: Articles published between 2009 and  2020. 
- **Total Records**: 378 raw articles were scraped; after filtering out entries with fewer than 20 characters of main text or failed parses.

## Files

- **`EgyptIndependentUltrasTexts.csv`**  
  A csv file with the following columns:
  - `publication_date` — Date the article was published (YYYY‑MM‑DD).  
  - `url`              — Full URL of the original Egypt Independent article.  
  - `text`             — UTF‑8 text extracted from the article’s main content container.

## Data Fields

| Column             | Type    | Description                                                                 |
|--------------------|---------|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| publication_date   | Date    | Publication date.                                                           |
| url                | string  | `"https://www.egyptindependent.com/"` + article specific URL                |
| text               | string  | Main body text, whitespace‑collapsed, non‑ASCII characters replaced.        |

## Paper Reference

Connor T. Jerzak. Football fandom in Egypt. _Routledge Handbook of Sport in the Middle East_, pages 196-207, Oxfordshire, UK, 2022. Routledge. Danyel Reiche and Paul Brannagan (eds.) 
[[PDF]](https://connorjerzak.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Jerzak_FootballFandomInEgypt.pdf) | [[BibTeX]](https://connorjerzak.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/FandomBib.txt)


```
@inproceedings{jerzak2022football,
  title={Football fandom in Egypt},
  author={Jerzak, Connor T.},
  booktitle={Routledge Handbook of Sport in the Middle East},
  year={2022},
  volume={},
  pages={196-207},
  publisher={Routledge},
  address={Oxfordshire, UK}
}
```
